The wife of French President Emmanuel Macron spoke openly, in an interview given to the newspaper La Tribune Dimanche, about the last nine years spent at the Élysée Palace. The former French teacher was, among other things, the victim of online harassment, reports BFMTV.
In the interview, Brigitte Macron confessed that she is “sometimes sad like never before” before moving to the Élysée Palace with her husband, evoking the personal balance of these nine years.
“Before, I had a normal life, children, a job, ups and downs, like everyone else. Here, these ten years passed so quickly… They were so intense. I saw the darkness of the world, the stupidity, the evil. Sometimes I'm sad like I've never been,” said the wife of Emmanuel Macron, who will have to leave the Élysée Palace in 2027, after two terms as head of state.
“Sometimes it's difficult for me to see the blue sky. (…) I have moments of pessimism that I didn't have before,” she confessed in this interview held at the Élysée Palace.
Victim of online bullying
The former French teacher, who was bullied online, says she usually puts her thoughts down on paper and it helps her “a lot”.
In January, several of Brigitte Macron's online harassers, accused of broadcasting or distributing insults and rumors related to her gender and age difference to the president, were sentenced to up to six months in prison, but most received suspended sentences.
The relationship between Emmanuel Macron, 48, and his wife Brigitte, 73, whom he met when she taught drama at his high school, has been the subject of a massive spread of false information, which the couple eventually decided to fight in France and the United States.
Brigitte Macron explained to investigators when she filed a complaint at the end of August 2024 that the rumor that she was a transgender woman had “a very strong impact” on her and those close to her.
